[REF] Tutorial: How to partition sd card to run wp7 and android from same sd card

[mengfei]

Thinking I might have to take a step backwards delete the partitions and start all over again....

hi, check the link below it might help as he also wanted to format his SD card

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=27593507#post27593507

 

[DorkyDev]

hi, check the link below it might help as he also wanted to format his SD card

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=27593507#post27593507

1 Card method... So I SHOULD Delete the 200Mb partition and also everything should be in the Android folder, right?

I didn't think I was supposed to delete the 200Mb folder

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How do I reset WP7 again, I got it to put the 200Mb - 13Gb - 16Gb in that order then applied the changes and MiniTool Partition Wizard disappeared and opened back up again with nothing at all displayed for the SD card and now when I try to put into WP7 it gives me the no SD card detected Emergency Call | Turn Off

 

[HypoTurtle]

1 Card method... So I SHOULD Delete the 200Mb partition and also everything should be in the Android folder, right?

I didn't think I was supposed to delete the 200Mb folder

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How do I reset WP7 again, I got it to put the 200Mb - 13Gb - 16Gb in that order then applied the changes and MiniTool Partition Wizard disappeared and opened back up again with nothing at all displayed for the SD card and now when I try to put into WP7 it gives me the no SD card detected Emergency Call | Turn Off

Hold volume down as WP7 is booting (when MAGLDr is counting), will allow it to recapture the sd card.

 

[DorkyDev]

Grrrr Darnit darnit darnit!!!!! Errrrrrrrrrrrr!

Everything went good but now I am running into the drive letter issue again MiniTools askes for a drive when formatting the 13Gb Fat32 but then after clicking apply and everything finishes it removes the drive letter...

Only the very first lil 200Mb shows up as an actual drive. >_<

Nobody said if I delete that or leave it or what, and windows cant and will not detect the fat32 android partition because it is 2nd in line(Only the 1st partition will be dectected and active as a removable device, you can not have 2 active partitions on 1 card... I think, and according to EaseUS) to the 200Mb partition of whatever that is for(WP7 I assume cause when I deleted it I had to hard reset and wipe/clear the card and setup WP7 again)!!!

 

[HypoTurtle]

Grrrr Darnit darnit darnit!!!!!

Everytime I do this:This happens:Especially this part:Cause well I dunno, I create the smaller Android partition after deleting the larger Unallocated space... If I go about creating the larger WP7 space first it appears in the middle.

Trying one last time.

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Errrrrrrrrrrrr! Everything went good but now I am running into the drive letter issue again MiniTools askes for a drive when formatting the 13Gb Fat32 but then after clicking apply and everything finishes it removes the drive letter...

I'll try and work through what should be happening to see if there's a step your rushing through.

Starting with installing the WP7 ROM this formats the card to have 200MB of fat16 memory for use as general sd storage and the rest as unformatted space which is integrated in with the WP7 ROM. With the ROM identifying the size of the unformatted partition and expecting to find this on every boot.

Resetting the device (from the WP7 about menu), seems to clear this value allowing for the changing of partition sizes. So after resetting the device, and removing the sdcard what you need to do is shrink the unformatted partition, done by deleting it and then creating a new unformatted partion.

This unformatted partition should be able to be moved through the unallocatted (empty) space. And should be on the opposite side on the sdcard to the fat16 partition. Once you have the sdcard set up with 200MB Fat16 - Unallocated space - Unformatted space ; you then need to reinsert the sdcard and let WP7 complete the reset; (having the unformatted space in essence hide that storage) from WP7 while it takes the unformatted space into its system.

Once the system has reinstaled itself, turn the phone off and remove the sdcard and you can do what you want with the unallocated space and fat16 i.e. wipe both and create a fat32 partition. Making sure to use minitool to make both partitions primary.

 

[DorkyDev]

I'll try and work through what should be happening to see if there's a step your rushing through.

Starting with installing the WP7 ROM this formats the card to have 200MB of fat16 memory for use as general sd storage and the rest as unformatted space which is integrated in with the WP7 ROM. With the ROM identifying the size of the unformatted partition and expecting to find this on every boot.

Resetting the device (from the WP7 about menu), seems to clear this value allowing for the changing of partition sizes. So after resetting the device, and removing the sdcard what you need to do is shrink the unformatted partition, done by deleting it and then creating a new unformatted partion.

This unformatted partition should be able to be moved through the unallocatted (empty) space. And should be on the opposite side on the sdcard to the fat16 partition. Once you have the sdcard set up with 200MB Fat16 - Unallocated space - Unformatted space ; you then need to reinsert the sdcard and let WP7 complete the reset; (having the unformatted space in essence hide that storage) from WP7 while it takes the unformatted space into its system.

Once the system has reinstaled itself, turn the phone off and remove the sdcard and you can do what you want with the unallocated space and fat16 i.e. wipe both and create a fat32 partition. Making sure to use minitool to make both partitions primary.

I done all that correctly I believe, I didn't wipe the 200Mb to be merged with the new unallocated Fat32 android partition, which I believe is what I might have to do to allow it to pick up the android partition.

I should be safe right? Hopefully as long as the unformatted WP7 is still intact, just need to do a reset again before doing it?

I'm stuck here with the 3 partitions all in order 200mb (Unactive/Status None) - 13Gb (Active/Status Active) - 16Gb (Unactive/Status None) all 3 are set to Primary.

11. IMPORTANT You need to convert the wp7 unformatted partition to primary for the sd android to see the sd card Use minitool partition wizard to do this. Right click on your WP7 unformatted partition and select modify and then click on set as primary and hit apply. Here is the link for minitool: http://xdaforums.com/show...&postcount=372

Anything else after this? Cause I did that then tried to assign a drive letter again and clicked apply and after it successfully completed the drive letter went away again.

 

[HypoTurtle]

I done all that correctly I believe, I didn't wipe the 200Mb to be merged with the new unallocated Fat32 android partition, which I believe is what I might have to do to allow it to pick up the android partition.

I should be safe right? Hopefully as long as the unformatted WP7 is still intact, just need to do a reset again before doing it?

I'm stuck here with the 3 partitions all in order 200mb (Unactive/Status None) - 13Gb (Active/Status Active) - 16Gb (Unactive/Status None) all 3 are set to Primary.
Anything else after this? Cause I did that then tried to assign a drive letter again and clicked apply and after it successfully completed the drive letter went away again.

As far as I'm aware drive letters are easiest allocated during formatting (I had trouble months ago, not sure what I did to rectify it), if you're phone is booting fine into WP7 and it's registering the 16GB within its storage then leave that be.

You have no real need for the fat16 partition any more, I'd delete both the fat16 and the fat32 partitions then create a fat 32 in Partition Master then make both primary in MiniTool. Making sure to assign a drive letter in Partition Master (EaseUS) during partition creation.

 

[DorkyDev]

As far as I'm aware drive letters are easiest allocated during formatting (I had trouble months ago, not sure what I did to rectify it), if you're phone is booting fine into WP7 and it's registering the 16GB within its storage then leave that be.

You have no real need for the fat16 partition any more, I'd delete both the fat16 and the fat32 partitions then create a fat 32 in Partition Master then make both primary in MiniTool. Making sure to assign a drive letter in Partition Master (EaseUS) during partition creation.

Okay done all that and everything is picking up now, made it Primary Fat32 64Kb cluster, now copying android... I leave all the files in the android folder and put it at the root of the drive, right?

I got the magldr startup.txt and magldr root in there too.

Problem, dunno how long it's been since ya'll have used Partition Master but apparently things have changed a lot since then, I ran into this again after deleting and fixing to make a Fat32 Partition:

The operation cannot be completed. Windows only recognize the first primary partition on a removable device. If no primary partitions, only the first logical partition is recognized.

Also there's no option for a cluster size...

Couldn't I just do all that in MiniTools Partition Wizard instead of over complicating things with 2 disk partition tools?

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Son of a Whore!!!

Problem after problem after problem!!!!!!

And this is why I typically stay away from modding and flashing!! >_<

Done all that in MiniTools, went to copy "Android" folder to D:\ (My Fat32 13Gb 64Kb Cluster Removable drive) and then bloody Windows pops up with this error: "Cannot copy the date: The parameter is incorrect" WTF'ing Hell! >_<

LoL! I swear if I don't have bad luck with this then who does? I'd love to hear their stories. haha

 

[HypoTurtle]

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I got the magldr startup.txt and magldr root in there too.

Couldn't I just do all that in MiniTools Partition Wizard instead of over complicating things with 2 disk partition tools?


Done all that in MiniTools, went to copy "Android" folder to D:\ (My Fat32 13Gb 64Kb Cluster Removable drive) and then bloody Windows pops up with this error: "Cannot copy the date: The parameter is incorrect" WTF'ing Hell! >_<

The startup.txt is just picked up by haret nothing to do with magldr (it's fine to leave it).

There is a reason for using the two; EaseUS can set both as primary and there is something that MiniTools can't do (can't recall what though).

That error (I've had unrelated a while ago) and point to either a corrupted file or a file that's bigger than 4GB which there shouldn't be in a blank/fresh sd build. and yes the downloaded ROM zip should be extracted so that its Ddrive_number)/Android/Files(system.ext4; zImage etc.)

The file(Android) can be called anything; it justs needs to be set up as SD Dir in MAGLDr.

You could try formatting the drive (I take it you just have the fat32 and unformatted partitions now) directly via Windows (right click and format); this will just affect the fat32 partition, and see what that turns up.

 

[DorkyDev]

The startup.txt is just picked up by haret nothing to do with magldr (it's fine to leave it).

There is a reason for using the two; EaseUS can set both as primary and there is something that MiniTools can't do (can't recall what though).

That error (I've had unrelated a while ago) and point to either a corrupted file or a file that's bigger than 4GB which there shouldn't be in a blank/fresh sd build. and yes the downloaded ROM zip should be extracted so that its Ddrive_number)/Android/Files(system.ext4; zImage etc.)

The file(Android) can be called anything; it justs needs to be set up as SD Dir in MAGLDr.

You could try formatting the drive (I take it you just have the fat32 and unformatted partitions now) directly via Windows (right click and format); this will just affect the fat32 partition, and see what that turns up.

Tried formatting as many ways as possible, WinMo Resco Explorer format - Switch ActiveSync to USB Device, Windows default formater,, EaseUS, MiniTools everything results in a copying error some how. It was either connected through my LG Fathom as a MASS USB Device or HD2 MAGLDR MASS USB Device. I have no reader right now as it feel apart with all the pulling it in and out of the usb. Crappy asain ebay products! LoL

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Also FYI MiniTools only allows you to set partitions as primary or logical now only when creating a new partition. Just like EaseUS has changed so has MiniTools, this is a 1 and a half year old thread and we all know nothing stays the same software wise it's always progressing.

Unless I am wrong of course and missing some unforeseen option?

 

[DorkyDev]

Found a MicroSDHC to SDHC Adapter and used it and everything moved perfectly.

BUT now when I try to boot into WP7 it says SD Card error. How do I fix this without erasing everything I've done?

Wished there was a way to reset WP7 like in the about menu, without wiping out the whole card.

 

[DorkyDev]

4. You'll see two partitions. A whopping 200mb of fat16 partition and the other is unformatted. Now right click on the unformatted partition and click delete. After that, click apply. Now you have unallocated space. Right click on the unallocated space and select create. Set parameters to logical and unformatted and size the partition. This will be your WP7 partition, so decide how much you want to allocate to it, this is permanent, no changes afterwards can be made. Also, make sure you move it to the end of the sd card in the same 'create' window. Hit apply. IMPORTANT When using this method make sure that the wp7 "unformatted partition" is larger than the Android partition otherwise the wp7 "unformatted partition" will move in 2nd place and you will not be able to resize the fat 16 / android partition.

Something weird is going on now... Accidentally wiped out the android partition and had to fully clear the card and reinstall WP7, now I finished the installation went through the setup and then reset the phone now it only shows 200Mb in MiniTools and EaseUS, but WP7 says 29Gb

Errr! Now I can't recreate what I did before to get both partitions to show up... >_<

Guess I'll give up for the night and call it quits.

 

[HypoTurtle]

Something weird is going on now... Accidentally wiped out the android partition and had to fully clear the card and reinstall WP7, now I finished the installation went through the setup and then reset the phone now it only shows 200Mb in MiniTools and EaseUS, but WP7 says 29Gb

Errr! Now I can't recreate what I did before to get both partitions to show up... >_<

Guess I'll give up for the night and call it quits.

If your using xboxmod's BTTF build then you'll also need to unlock the card first. It should be unlocked by default with the other ROMs, so don't know what else could be going on.

 

[DorkyDev]

If your using xboxmod's BTTF build then you'll also need to unlock the card first. It should be unlocked by default with the other ROMs, so don't know what else could be going on.

Hrmmm! Weird, okay if I plug in the sd card into my sd card adapter it only shows 200mb's, if I use magldr usb mass strg if shows both both partitions.

IDK If this is cause WP7 has already been setup or not, but when I get hom get home from I'll try resetting WP7 again and going into into magldr mass strg to see if this still works. Don't have time to right now gotta eventually get ready for work and can't dive down into this and get tied up with it.

 

[DorkyDev]

Alright let me get this straight (Someone correct me if I'm wrong!) but...

After the wp7 setup, reset wp7 again, let it shut down and load into magldr. STOP wp7 from booting, choose magldr's usb masssrg option, create the fat32, then after that's created the partition manager will try to turn the wp7 space (unformatted) into unallocated, so then we should turn it back into unformatted, set as primary, set fat32 as primary click apply and it's safe to delete the 200mb space?

Not gunna try this tonight taking a lil break from it before I have a go at it again.

 

[HypoTurtle]

Alright let me get this straight (Someone correct me if I'm wrong!) but...

After the wp7 setup, reset wp7 again, let it shut down and load into magldr. STOP wp7 from booting, choose magldr's usb masssrg option, create the fat32, then after that's created the partition manager will try to turn the wp7 space (unformatted) into unallocated, so then we should turn it back into unformatted, set as primary, set fat32 as primary click apply and it's safe to delete the 200mb space?

Not gunna try this tonight taking a lil break from it before I have a go at it again.

Not quite, I'll admit what I said previously was a bit waffly.

It's setup WP7, reset, stop at MaGLDR (you can set it up to always boot to menu). Then in EaseUS delete the large (WP7) partition and click apply. Leaving you with your 200MB Fat16 and unallocated space. Then create your unformated/WP7 space and move it to the opposite end to the Fat16.

Once you have [Fat16 - Unallocated Space - WP7 partition] you insert it back into the phone and let it boot and setup again.

Once this setup is done you can turn off the phone, making sure it turns off fully.

Then you can resize the Fat16 to take up the unallocated space and you can then format it and do with it what you will.
And again using MiniTool to set both as primary if intending on using most android kernels.

FYI: MaGLDR's mass storage can be quite buggy and disconnect itself or stall unexpectantly so best to try and use something else to do it (a microsd reader would also be a lot faster)

 

[c1cl0n]

3in1 [WPH7 + ICS SD + ICS NativeSD] on Your HTC LEO​

This method based on Geolo with my modifications

Device requiments:

• HTC LEO (HD2)
• Card reader with support microSD
• 2 microSD cards - 2Gb for WindowsPhone 7 & 8Gb (or higher) for Android builds
• USB cable (miniUSB Device-PC)
• PC with installed Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/Se7en (32/64)

Software requiments (HD2):

• Installed MAGLDR v1.13
• Radio 2.15.50.14 (on higher not tested!)
• HSPL 2.08 (on higher not tested!)
• 4EXT Recovery app [SD or NAND, as your want)

Software requiments (PC):

• Installed Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/Se7en (32/64)
• Installed Microsoft ActiveSync 4.5 (for Windows XP)
  or Microsoft Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1 & Zune (for Windows Vista/Se7en)
• Installed EASEUS Partition Manager
• Installed MiniTool Partition Wizard
• Installed Panasonic SDFormatter
• Installed your HD2 device drivers to detect your HD2 in PC

Time requiments:

• 1.5-2 hours for 1 card reader and mass storage mode on your phone
  or 20-40 minutes for 2 card readers (all partition operations without HD2)

Difficultly level:

• Advanced users (you may optimize any steps of this guide at your risk)
• Beginner users (with basic knowledges of Windows (PC & Mobile editions), Android & Partitions), just do it step-by-step

So, if you are agree previous requiments and ready to begin - lets do it now

Step1. Prepare your sdcards

• Insert your bigger (8Gb or higher) sdcard into card reader and connect it to your PC
• MAKE FULL BACKUP ALL CARD DATA
• Run Panasonic SDFormatter and begin format your sdcard as Full Erase mode
• Done. Change your bigger (8Gb) sdcard to smaller (2Gb) sdcard and reconnect card reader to PC
• MAKE FULL BACKUP ALL CARD DATA
• No formatt req. because WP7 will do this for you at install & 1st start
• Done!

Step2. Install & setup WP7

• Now, put your smaller sdcard in HD2 and turn it on
• Choose 5th menu USB Flasher. Connect your HD2 to PC and execute install app (in my chooce, I'm used DAF.EXE (any other binary installer) app from HD2O© WMP7 Tango ROM)
• Wait until the install process of WP7 to your HD2
• Done! Device will rebooted automaticly
• In MAGLDR choose 1st menu Boot WHP and WP7 will be booted
• Complete stup your WP7 (language, time zone, date, time etc.) IT IS VERY IMPORTANT!
• After complete setup, turn off your HD2. Do not reset setting to default from About menu! IT IS VERY IMPORTANT!

Step3. Partitions Task #1

• Turn on your HD2 with smaller sdcard (2Gb/WP7)
• In MAGLDR choose 4th menu USB MassStg and connect your HD to your PC
• Insert your bigger (8Gb or higher) sdcard into card reader and connect it to your PC
• Run EASEUS Partition Master. Now you can see your both sdcards, like this:
  Disk X (smaller sdcard 2GB/WP7)
  ** FAT16 200MB Primary
  ** Unformatted 1.65GB Primary
  Disk Y (bigger sdcard 8GB)
  ** FAT32 7.28GB Primary
• Resize existing FAT32 partition on bigger sdcard by this calculate:
  ** For WP7 we need 2GB (2048MB)
  ** Other avaible space for Android builds
• Press Apply. Now you have this:
  Disk Y (bigger sdcard 8GB)
  ** FAT32 5.28GB Primary
  ** Unallocated 2.01GB Logical
• Copy 200MB FAT16 partition (on smaller sdcard) and paste it to Unallocated space of bigger sdcard
• Press Apply. Now you have this:
  Disk Y (bigger sdcard 8GB)
  ** FAT32 5.28GB Primary
  ** FAT16 191.11MB Primary
  ** Unallocated 1.82GB Logical
• Copy 1.65GB Unformatted partition (on smaller sdcard) and paste it to Unallocated space of bigger sdcard
• Press Apply. Now you have this:
  ** FAT32 5.28GB Primary
  ** FAT16 191.11MB Primary
  ** Unformatted 1.65GB Primary
  ** Unallocated 1.82GB Logical
• Check up partitions order:
  FAT32 -> FAT16 -> Unformatted -> Unallocated
  Where FAT32 (is your partition for Android builds SD & NativeSD), FAT16 & Unformatted (is your partitions by WP7)
• Done!
• Discinnect both sdcards, turn off phone and put in bigger sdcard

Step4. Reconfigure WP7 & accept new sdcard

• Turn on HD2 and start WP7 from MAGLDR by 1st menu Boot WPH
• WP7 must be start and accepted your new sdcard with old (from smaller sdcard) partitions (FAT16 200MB and Unformatted 1.65GB)
• Check it by App menu -> Settings -> About
  See attached screenshot
  If system shows Total Storage: 1.64GB and Avaible storage: 1.34GB you are man :laugh:
  Else, you make mistakes while making/copy partitions in 3rd step. Anyway, you can see video and check it again
• Turn off your HD2
  

Step5. Partitions Task #2

• Replace bigger sdcard from HD2 and put it in card reader because we will work with partitions on this card
• Connect card reader to PC and run MiniTool Partition Wizard
• Now select 1st partition of sdcard (FAT32 5.28GB Primary) and resize it with next calculate:
  50% of size for Android SD builds and 50% for Android NativeSD builds
  But you choose your own size for your Android as you want
• Press Apply. Now you have this:
  Disk Y (bigger sdcard 8GB)
  ** FAT32 2.61GB Primary
  ** Unallocated 2.67GB Logical
  ** Unknown 191.11MB Primary
  ** Unknown 1.65GB Primary
  ** Unallocated 1.82GB Logical
• Select Unallocaed (red) and choose Create New partition
• Choose type Primary and system Ext4, then press OK
• Press Apply. Now you have this:
  Disk Y (bigger sdcard 8GB)
  ** FAT32 2.61GB Primary
  ** Ext4 2.67GB Primary
  ** Unknown 191.11MB Primary
  ** Unknown 1.65GB Primary
  ** Unallocated 182MB Logical

Step6. Final

• Now you have 1 device HTC LEO (HD2) with:
  - NAND partiotion with Windows Phone 7
  - FAT32 partition for Android SD/MAGLDR builds
  - EXT4 partition for Android NativeSD build
• Are you happy? no? read this thread again

If you can not understand step-by-step guide, see my video where I'm do it step-be-step specially for you
DEV-HOST | 1360x768 HD

 

[pakure]

Hd2owner's rom supports yuki xda partitioncab..use your desired size cab to partition your sd... done in 1 minute..

Sent from my HTC HD2 using Tapatalk 2

 

[luciferps]

best method so far to dual boot wp7 and android(native sd + normalsd) thank you so much c1cl0n you are the man!

 

[ric69]

For me all works great before step 5 ... after, wp7 does not recognize my sdcard